Creative director, interior designer and photographer Jay Carroll discovered the allure ofSanta Fe by serendipity. In his early 20s, he was working as a roadie for a country band when
Remember buzz? Remember being excited about going out to see something new, live and in the flesh? The world may not be fully right side up yet, but signs of reemergence are popping up all over. Consider Sized, the ambitious exhibition of design and art set to unfold across a sprawling 15,000-square-foot venue in Los Angeles starting June 15. The brainchild of curator Alexander May, Sized presents a startling, centuries-spanning array of objects and artworks in a former storage facility for Paramount Studios.
“It’s really a meditation on collecting, on how pieces of wildly far-flung pedigrees and periods can live together in ways that are mutually ennobling and energizing,” May explains to AD PRO. The exhibition design with objects displayed on a sinuous strip of humble steel decking that snakes through the voluminous space has its own conceptual underpinning. “This kind of steel deck is typically used for performances, so this is my way of giving these extraordinary things